6 Disturbing Health & Beauty Fads of the Middle Ages...

I am always disgusted at beauty standards describing grown women who are desirable as “ childlike” sick fucks

I love these videos so much, but they also cement the fact that humans are the dumbest weirdest most easily susceptible to anything anyone tells them, most gullible animal on earth. And we’re supposed to be the smartest!… haha

YESssss! I am liberated!

I can't believe that my big ol 5 head was once a reverend symbol of beauty. Whenever I take pics of myself I hold the camera half way down my face to hide it.🤣

Times change but sexism doesn’t

Please tell the sizes also in cm or m next time for people who are not american

With the thick makeup many women used and their use of gloves, it wasn't uncommon for the women to have rickets, due to lack of sunlight. The ways the used to get pale while skin literally killed them.

The ideal beauty in the middle ages has the ideal features that makes a woman look vulnerable and submissive since men, across centuries has always feared that women will rule superior than men.The high forehead, thin eyebrows and pale skin resembles the look of an infant and an obvious womb indicates that a woman has a very soft body.

Hey everybody let's tweeze all our eyebrows off and then glue rat hair in its place

This foot thing is down right mutilation

Beauty kills.

Its still crazy now for black women as almost all are bald and wear wigs 😂 for what!

Of course the foot binding was abput male domination!! Its disgusting!!!

nothing as weird as getting plastic implants in your chest and buttocks.

Since forever, societies have been constructed so women are dependent on a male for everything, hence all the ridiculous beauty trends, it is still happening today. BBL, Botox, Blood facemasks, etc.

It's important to note that a PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMAN, GLADYS AYLWARD was the one sent thru out china to end food binding

Geishas painted the blackening tincture onto their teeth, they didn't drink it.

Would you look at that… it wasn’t Gillette that invented women’s body hair standards… what a surprise…

Once a week bathing

The need to confirm to cultural norms is very high on rhe scale of human needs. We still suffer many things in order to gain respect and admiration. Dieting, plastic surgery, expensive designer clothes, hair extensions, teeth bleaching, on and on.

OMG 😮😮😮 and why would anyone allow this! I know things were different then, but jeez, I wouldn't have survived those times.

Being very pale with iron deficiency and high forehead, I would fit perfectly in the medieval times 😬👻

In the renaissance plump women were the beauty standard.
Noble men would wear high heels, and stitch a bulge into the groin of their pants.

GFYS 😂

Narrator is that Indian guy that tries to talk like English noble. Ha ha

I would have wished for a warning before showing the foot binding. Those pictures were extremely unsettling.

Soooo if women looked more like virginal children it was desirable to men? Y I K E S

How about the mortal sin of abusing alter boys?????

Wait until the truth of the frenzy and govt push of multiple vaccinations to help guard against C19 comes to light
Give it 100 -200 years when everyone’s passed from old age that can remember
We are no different today than the medieval people that believed the Government during their time of living

Thats because the men at that time men thought the 3" foot was delicate looking like a lotus.

Slouchestowardsbedlam, dont forget the fake boobs injection in the butt to get that hour glass figure.

In both India and Africa today , to have whiter skin is still liked. Women often use creams with floor stripper chemicals in them. But times are changing.

One of the my fav episodes yet.

For the foot binding another prominent theory relates to the well documented foot fetish the emperor had when the practice started

Omg this horrible to have to this done a body

4 Girls in Family. Only the breauty one can get married. The 3 ather Girls Go in the nunhouse. IT was for Money

Men went over them Till they have 3-4 Boys. After that No more

That's horrible!

The things people do for beauty. And I'd honestly rather die alone and ostracised in the wilderness than endure what happened to those poor little girls in China did. No man is worth that sh*t.

so silly back then

Erin Parsons did an amazing YT video where she recreates actual white lead makeup and a lab assists her in formulating it according to records and testing it on pig skin. Turns out, white lead was less the cakey white mask we see in movies and mich more like our modern luminizers. In a candlelit setting, it wouldve imparted an ethereal glow!

Beauty treatments mentioned in this video remind me of what Lily used when she opened her beauty parlor in the episode “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GHOUL IN THE WORLD” on the classic sitcom series of “THE MUNSTERS”.
Also, there’s no telling as to which of these beauty treatments would have been used by the women of The Addams Family.

*Ironically, now we ladies wear fake eyelashes to make our eyes look more expressive. Well other ladies as I am 45 years young and I have NEVER in my life worn fake lashes. It's nice to know that people thought body hair was gross back then as well as it is and causes a person to stink due to the soap not being able to reach the person's skin. Thankfully, I was blessed with naturally green doe eyes (courtesy of my Mom).

So essentially people poisoned themselves just to be a man’s servant.
Got it.

So look as best for your husband because he has no self control... got it 👍🏻

The fact that the mothers excepted foot binding and put it on their daughters.

Nothing chances, women are still fools .

Regarding the desirability of the oval face: In the not so distant 1960s magazines for teenagers asserted that the oval face was the ideal and we should use cosmetics in such a way that it appeared that our face was that shape.

The whole idea of foot binding is absolutely terrifying. Just the idea of the "operation" to break the foot